Talk:Mường language

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Does Muong have a standard written system? And if it was also heavily influenced by Chinese, do "Sino-Muong" words appear the same as "Sino-Viet." words? Le Anh-Huy 12:06, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

External links[edit]

Please add some external links for examples of the language. It is very, very interesting but the stub is too short. For those of us who want to learn more. - Pernambuco 19:43, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Source citation and some confusion.[edit]

First, this article doesn't have any citations to say that the Muong language is tonal, or indeed any citations at all. Second, I can't find much on "Muong language" anywhere else on the web that doesn't pull directly from this page. However, I can and do find the terms Viet-muong and Mon-Khmer languages or language groups. Problem is, the Mon-Khmer language group is atonal (in other words, it is NOT tonal). Why is this a problem? I think I heard that the Muong language, or at least that of the mountainards (which as I understand is a synonym for the Muong), is descend from this language group. Could someone please clear this up?--Light Dragon 20:10, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/ldtc/languages/nguon/

Rajmaan (talk) 02:27, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The article has two references, which both describe the tones of Mường. Proto-Mon–Khmer may have been atonal, but the Vietic subgroup is tonal. MuDavid (talk) 07:08, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]